Exploring the Connections Between Cultural Intelligence, Knowledge Dynamics, Disrupted Organisational Context and Multicultural Leadership

With the progression of globalization, multicultural leadership in organizations has increased in importance and become strategic for a company's economic and social success. This research investigates the interaction between cultural intelligence, knowledge dynamics, and organizational context and how they affect multicultural leadership. Amidst the complexities of global interactions and the diversification of the workforce, multicultural leadership emerges as a critical aspect of management that is capable of providing differentiation and harnessing cultural diversity for organizational business advantages. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the post-associated increase in remote work make this requirement more prominent as leaders manage a whole new set of cultural challenges with teams located in different regions of the world with various cultural backgrounds. This study utilizes a mixed-methods research design, integrating a systematic literature review with empirical data collection and analysis. The qualitative part, supported by the bibliometric approach powered by VOSviewer, is further complemented by a quantitative study of approximately 400 answered questionnaires to assess the constructs across a worldwide spread sample of respondents. This multiphase research framework allows for a complete evaluation of cultural intelligence, which is the ability to understand and effectively handle interactions between different cultures; knowledge dynamics, which means making it easier for people to share knowledge and come up with new ideas; and organizational context—within their shaping process of multicultural leadership practices.